"Don't move—stand your ground!"
"Don't move!"
Koby shouted at Helmeppo.
"The situation's at a stalemate right now. Neither beast has noticed us yet!"
"If we move, we'll break the balance!"
"And once they start fighting, we'll be crushed instantly!"
"Honestly…"
Helmeppo forced a smile uglier than crying.
"I'd love to move."
"My body's already locked up."
Forget running—his legs wouldn't even listen to him anymore.
Not far away—
Raifeng stared intently at their position.
"…Looks like I overdid it."
There had been another beast hidden there all along.
That was something he hadn't accounted for.
Now—
They'd provoked two monsters at once.
This was officially out of control.
Raifeng exhaled deeply and stepped forward, approaching the deadly battlefield.
What started as an experiment—
Now demanded absolute seriousness.
Because one mistake here…
Would really get them killed.
ROOOAR!
A furious roar erupted from beneath Koby and Helmeppo, echoing skyward.
The beast revealed itself—
A gigantic turtle-like monster, seven meters long.
The two monsters faced each other.
The air grew suffocating.
"That brat Raifeng…"
"One slip, and he drags me into a massive mess!"
"If I don't step in, those three are done for."
Garp was just about to move—
When he suddenly saw Raifeng walking straight into the space between the two monsters.
Garp stopped dead.
"What the hell is he thinking?!"
"Is he insane?!"
"That's the most dangerous spot possible!"
"If things go wrong, even I might not make it in time to save him!"
"This is madness!"
"Not abandoning your companions is admirable—but charging blindly into death isn't bravery. It's stupidity!"
Garp's expression shifted rapidly, brows knitted tight as he stared at Raifeng's back.
He couldn't understand it.
Was Raifeng trying to die?
In Garp's eyes—
This was no different from suicide.
These two monsters were far beyond what they could handle. From the start, their actions had been nothing but reckless probing of death's edge.
And now—
They'd succeeded in provoking it.
"Raifeng—sir, don't come any closer!"
"Go find Vice Admiral Garp!"
Koby shouted desperately from atop the turtle's shell.
Helmeppo's face had already gone pale.
"It's over… we're finished."
If regret had a price, he'd pay anything to rewind time.
But it was too late.
Raifeng stopped.
He was now standing between the two monsters.
Front and back.
A perfect killing zone.
Ahead: the Long-Tusk Giant Elephant.
Behind: a seven-meter-long giant turtle.
Koby and Helmeppo felt their hearts turn ice-cold.
This was suicide.
"Vice Admiral Garp—please hurry!"
"If you don't come now, we're dead!"
Koby prayed desperately.
Only Garp could resolve this nightmare.
Otherwise—
They'd be torn apart by the shockwaves alone.
At the center of the battlefield—
Raifeng stared up at the Long-Tusk Giant Elephant.
Up close, its body was like a mountain—thick hide, overwhelming mass.
He turned.
Behind him, the giant turtle's blood-red eyes locked onto him.
Clearly—
Both monsters had noticed the sudden intruder.
They hadn't attacked yet—not because they feared Raifeng—
But because they feared each other.
To them, Raifeng was nothing more than a fragile ant.
"Pressure from two monsters at once…"
"That's something else."
Raifeng smiled.
That alone made Koby and Helmeppo's scalps go numb.
This was the situation—
And he was smiling?!
At that moment, they revised their opinion of him.
Raifeng wasn't just a genius.
He was a terrifying madman.
MOOO—!
The elephant roared again.
Finally, it attacked.
Its massive trunk swung down toward the turtle shell beneath Koby and Helmeppo—fierce and unstoppable.
Its target wasn't them—
But the turtle.
They were just collateral damage.
"It's over!"
Koby and Helmeppo trembled.
They couldn't dodge.
The trunk descended like the sky collapsing.
Darkness swallowed their vision.
From the shadows—
Garp inhaled sharply and prepared to charge.
Another second, and it would be too late.
Then—
At the center of the battlefield—
Raifeng calmly watched the attack.
"I told you," he said softly,
"if I dared to make you provoke it, then I had some confidence."
"You two could at least trust me a little."
Before the trunk could land—
A faint aura burst forth from Raifeng's small body.
Buzz—
At first, it was weak.
Like a trickling stream.
Then—
BOOM!
The aura exploded outward, transforming into a raging sea, surging violently in all directions!
An invisible shockwave spread like a transparent ring—
Sweeping across thousands of meters in an instant!
Overwhelming.
Majestic.
Like a tidal wave crashing through heaven and earth.
That presence was—
Conqueror's Haki.
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